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  1. Re:solar power? on Groundbreaking Solar Mission Faces Chilly Death · · Score: 1

    The RTGs don't provide thrust either... as TFS states, it's used (among other things) to keep the hydrazine tanks for attitude control from freezing. Also, solar panels wouldn't help much, because it's orbit extends as far as Jupiter's (with the periapsis being a little outside Earth's orbit).

  2. Re:1TB disc! on 1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced · · Score: 1

    Also, how many laptop miles do I need to pipe that amount of data through bzip2 in 1 minute?

  3. Re:Proprietary vs. Proprietary? on Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight · · Score: 1

    Hopefully Adobe's Open Screen Project will fix that, because I'm not going to use Flash until a free implementation exists.

  4. Re:huh, I don't get it on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    After the three people left, there are -1 people in the building. Add one and you've got 0, no-one.

  5. Re:I have an idea! on Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not just skip the reading part and complain right away?

    Oh, wait...

  6. Re:Global Warming is dead, now it is Global Boilin on Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me!

  7. Re:Confidential....riiiiight on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the screen will get pretty gross in this scenario.

  8. Re:TROLL WARNING on Cyber Attacks against Tibetan Communities · · Score: 1

    Damn, and I was so eager to visit goatse. :(

  9. Re:Let's face it: on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nazi's
    No, but Grammar Nazis will.
  10. Re:Wow on Richard Stallman on OLPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make that "GNU/Linux Washing Powder" and "Emacs limescale remover" and you're set.

  11. Re:I think everybody knows on Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1

    Well, if someone buried them, it would certainly have been Khrushchev!

  12. Re:It's N800 plus. AND faster. on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 1

    The good thing is that the N800 also gets the new IT OS version (2008), which clocks the CPU to 400MHz. So the N810 has the same basic hard- and software as the N800.

  13. Re:Simple Question on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unfortunately, they changed the two SDHC-Slots to a single miniSD slot. It has 2GB of internal flash, though.

  14. Re:When did Zonk join? on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently not.

  15. Re:Pluto probe makes discoveries at Uranus on Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fry: Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.
    Leela: I don't get it.
    Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
    Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
    Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
    Fry: Hehe, no, no, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.

  16. Re:More like the Chinese gov on Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption · · Score: 1

    I think that would be the National Security Bureau.

  17. Re:Pictures on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 1

    The NASA-Site has some pictures of the probe during assembly.

  18. Re:Useful information? on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 3, Informative
    From the Wikipedia article:

    If Voyager 1 is still functioning when it finally passes the heliopause, scientists will get their first direct measurements of the conditions in the interstellar medium.
  19. Re:Glad to see... on NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space · · Score: 5, Informative

    Personally, I think NASA could more easily improve their image by putting a few cameras on the shuttle.. and showing us what the astronauts are actually doing when they're going through the procedures to return to earth, say, instead of showing us shot after shot of the landing strip, 4 hours before the shuttle is even scheduled to enter the atmosphere. You should have a look at NASA TV during Shuttle missions.
  20. Re:Wreckage on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 3, Funny

    And maybe it wasn't stolen but managed to flew away after the crew repaired it for nearly a century!

  21. Re:Are they sure? on Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision · · Score: 1

    They can measure the distance of the galaxies and therefore imply that the cluster is too far away to be a bunch of stars (because of their observed size/luminosity).

  22. Re:Are they sure? on Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision · · Score: 1

    It may just as easily (and appears to my untrained eye) to be more like a star system than a super super colliding galaxy. Umm, because stars are much smaller and less bright?
  23. Re:One of the biggest in the universe? on Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is assumed that the universe is not infinite in size.

  24. Re:I'd like to see more stuff like this on Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online · · Score: 1, Informative

    You should see this movie.

  25. Re:Big Changes, huh? on Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, the question is: Will it blend?